Compensation Management

Which of the following statements is true of a job evaluation plan?

It is developed using benchmark jobs and then applied to nonbenchmark jobs.

In the context of internal alignment, which of the following is the correct sequence?

Job description > Job evaluation > Job structure

________ is the process of systematically determining the relative worth of jobs for the purpose of creating an organization's job structure.

Job evaluation

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a benchmark job?

The pay level is the best in the industry.

A job structure based upon job value orders jobs on the basis of the relative contribution of the skills, duties, and responsibilities of each job to the organization's goals.

True

A representative sample of benchmark jobs will include the entire domain of work being evaluated and capture the diversity of the work within that domain.

True

TreeWind Inc. is a bookstore that uses skill and responsibility as its compensable factors. It assigns 20 percent weight to responsibility and 80 percent weight to skill. If the responsibility factor scores a 60 after multiplying the subfactors with their corresponding weights, and if the skill factor has two subfactors that are rated as 4 and 5, what is the total weightage given to the job?

420

Which of the following methods requires evaluators to agree on which jobs are the most and least valuable, then the next most and least valued, and so on until all the jobs have been ordered?

Alternation-ranking method

The ________ method of job evaluation uses compensable factors.

point

KayDen Corp., a small organization with 15 employees, conducts job evaluation using the least expensive method for the first time. In this case, KayDen is most likely to have used the ________.

ranking method